Goonies Never Say Die!

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Fuck Consequences!

Thought Pattern

How can vegans rally for more food options when kids are dying from police violence? How can vegans have cupcake sales when kids are dying of starvation in less than a 20 mile radius of the cupcake sale?
Violence is violence; we must work to end it. Not cover it with artificially sweetened icing.

We are...

Never too old to fuck shit up...

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I only check the news to find out if the world has ended yet.

...and Yet Again

This time the name is Darrien Hunt, and I don't need to tell you the story, the excuses, the lies. What needs to be told is kids of color are losing their lives to good old boy fear. Insecure white men fear black men. PERIOD. End of story.
It does not matter if he lunges at you, if he has a weapon, if there is report of violence, if there is a history of criminal activity. When one person sees another person we should accept the differences and find the common interests. It does not matter if the other person has a weapon or is bigger than us. It matters that we can live without fear and be able to confront violence with a calm and well mannered demeanor.
The people carrying out these killings take an oath to serve and protect and color nor beliefs are to play a role in who is protected and served. The people who choose to go into a line of work where they become a servant to ALL people should understand their safety is in jeopardy, but they should equally understand that other's lives are in their hands and they must uphold all respect to protect even the people that may do harm. Officers should be trained to shoot as a last resort and NEVER to shoot to kill.

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The truth is most white males especially those who feel the need to carry a gun or exert power and privilege, are afraid of Blacks in america due to the racist stereotype that they are bigger, stronger, and the positive truth they should fear is that they are more united than whites.

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If Tea Baggers, Right Wingers, Conservatives, Preppers, so on; actually believed in defending themselves against the tyranny and reckless governing of the United States; then they would be standing with the people of Ferguson, Missouri and against the officer who murdered Michael Brown.

History Repeats...

History repeats itself, but education can bring change.

Oscar Grant
Eric Garner
Michael Brown

These names and many more should be easily recognized, never misspelled, and we should never have to use a search engine to know who they are. These names should live in our hearts and memories.
I do not care what one's priors are, I do not care what one may have provoked, I care that unarmed people (mostly of color) were murdered for no other reason than fear.
If you take an oath to serve and protect then you must uphold it, not just for the integrity of your word, but the sanctity of those who also took the oath and to those who may depend on you.
A police training test is not much to brag about passing and carrying a gun while also wearing a bulletproof vest doesn't make you much of a hero. Police need to knock down their ego and realize MOST people have a higher education than they do. Most police officers don't understand the law as well as most people who have gone threw the system.
Police are not here to judge and murder.

Think For Yourself

I don’t have to side with obama for the sake of not being racist, and I do not have to side with hillary for th sake of not being sexist. I do not have to side with the republicans or libertarians for any reason at all. All of the above have done some terribly destructive, abusive, and anti human things. So what I really need to stand for is humanity, the animals and this planet; and say to everyone, politics is not working. If people go into politics they have a motive that clearly does not represent the people of the world. 

I can express my opinions without fearing media or social backlash. I can say that I side with cliven bundy on not paying taxes for federal land use. I can say I do not agree with raising cattle and his right wing racist stance. I can say I agree with some of the views of the so called extremists, amanda and jerad miller, that killed two police officers in Las Vegas, but I do not agree with all of their views and how they carried them out. Media and society, specifically social media have driven us to take abrupt sides as to wether we agree or disagree and not to sway in any way what so ever for fear of an internet slashing.

When Ted Kaczynski and his manifesto came to light most people acted appalled, but as some began to read his manifesto and not just take it as the media fed it to us, we all realized we agreed with a lot of what it said. Most hid this agreement for fear of appearing to side with a bomber who was killing people. This distancing is separating us rather than joining in conversations that could set us free. Rather than saying I agree with police being oppressors, we say that the right wing couple were crazy nuts, but were their ideas any different than the rest of us? Certainly most of us do not feel the need to kill people, but we do agree there is an oppressive presence happening in our society. This presence is worldwide, not just the US but abroad in almost every country. So rather than distance ourselves why not embrace the little things we do agree on and challenge debate amongst ourselves and government. 

This works for the bullying system created in our schools. We immediately vilify any attacker in a school or even business for that matter as if they were psychotic and mentally incompetent, yet we attempt to stop bullying because of suicides and other harmful acts that some are self inflicting. Can we not see that there is just the difference in reactions towards one who commits suicide and the one who commits a massacre with the use of violence? These people are the same until their final action is carried out. Therefor it is bullying that must be stopped and from that both suicide and gun violence will be quelled.

Too often we are arguing over a final product when the beginning of the production of these mindsets and to the outside factors (bullies, peer pressure, media pressure) are what must be stopped. Do not fear to hold fast to your opinions. Do not let the media, mass or social, create who you are and how you feel. You do not have to agree with the entirety of one mindset to have some feelings of similarity. Stop distancing ourselves from the truth and our own feelings.

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